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greenish-yellow. Wings, tail, and its upper coverts black ; the posterior greater coverts, 

 bases of the posterior primaries, and exterior tips and inner borders of the secondaries and 

 tertiaries white, stamed with yellow ; all the primaries edged with the same. Tips of the 

 superior tail coverts, the vent, and whole of the under coverts with the inner tips of the tail 

 feathers pure white. Under plumage yellowish-grey : inner wing coverts gamboge yellow.* 









Dimensions 



















Of the male. 















Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin 



Length total 



. 8 



3 



Length of bill above . 



. 



9 



Length of middle toe 



. 



9 



„ of tail 



. 3 







„ of bill to rictus . 







10 



,, of hind toe . 







5 



„ of wing 



. 4 



4 



„ of tarsus 



. 



9* 



,, of their nails . 



. 



4 



[83.] 2. Coccothraustes (Guiraca) Ludoviciana. (Swainson.) Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak. 



Genus, Coccothraustes, Biuss. Sub-genus, Guiraca, Swains. 



Loxia Ludoviciana. Linn. Syst., p. 306. 



Red-breasted Grosbeak. Penn. Arct. Zool , ii., p. 350, No. 212. 



Red-breasted Finch. Idem, p. 372, No. 245. Old male. 



Dusky Grosbeak. Idem, p. 351, No. 216. Female. 



Spotted Grosbeak. Idem, p. 350, No. 213. Young.f 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Loxia rosea vel Ludoviciana, Gen. Ind.). Wils. ii., p. 135, pi. 17, 



f. 1. Male. 

 Pyrrhula Ludoviciana. Sabine, Frank. Journ., p. C75, 



Fringilla Ludoviciana. Bonap. Syn., No. 189. OrnithoL, ii., p. 79, pi. 15, f, 2. Female. 

 OoskammahSoo. Cree Indians. 



A specimen of this brilliant bird was obtained near the Saskatchewan on Sir 

 John Franklin's first Expedition ; but we had not the good fortune to meet with it 

 on the second Journey. The Prince of Musignano is of opinion that it migrates 

 extensively, breeding in the north or in the mountains, and retiring southwards 

 in winter, or descending to the plains ; being, however, by no means numerous 

 in any known district. It frequents the deepest recesses of the forest, where, 

 during the solemn stillness of the night, it sings in a clear mellow, and har- 

 monious tone. — R. 



* The Prince of Musignano says that the female does not differ in plumage from the male. His authority for the 

 female plumage, as he never saw living examples, must be the same as ours, viz. the report of those who sent the skins 

 from the fur-countries. The specimen we have described above as the female is very nearly equal in dimensions to the 

 male. The bill is rather longer, more attenuated, and obscurely notched. — R. 



-f- These synonyms are assigned to this species on the authority of Mr. Sabine and the Prince of Musignano ; and, 

 if they are correct, Dr. Latham has of this one bird, in its different stages of plumage, made four species in two genera, 

 viz. Loxia Ludoviciana, obscura, and maculata, and Fringilla purpurea of the Index Ornithologicus, which Pennant 

 has copied. 



